This election is not about you: Rahul Gandhi hits out at PM Modi in Karnataka

Hitting out at the Prime Minister over his charge that he was abused 91 times Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday said Narendra Modi should understand that the Karnataka election was not about himAsking the Prime Minister to speak about the BJP governments work and future programmes for Karnataka instead of talking about himself the former AICC president took a dig at Modis statement about verbal abuses hurled at himYou Modi come to campaign in Karnataka for elections but dont speak about Karnataka You speak about yourself You have to say what you did in Karnataka for the past three years You also have to speak in your speeches about what you will be doing in the next five years what will do for youth education health and to fight corruption Gandhi saidAddressing a public meeting here in Tumakuru district Gandhi said This election is not about you it is about Karnatakas people and its future You say Congress abused you 91 times but you never speak about what you did for Karnataka In your next speech you speak about what you did and what you will do in the next five yearsAlso Read Learn from my brother he is ready to take a bullet for nation Priyanka Gandhi tells PM about his remarks on verbal abuseModi on Saturday targeted the Congress over its party president M Mallikarjun Kharges venomous snake barb at him and said till now the party and its leaders had hurled various types of abuses at him 91 timesClaiming that when he comes to Karnataka and gives speeches he speaks about his party leaders like Siddaramaiah and D K Shivakumar and about their work Gandhi said We take the names of all our leaders You Modi come here and dont even take the name of your Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai and B S Yediyurappa former CM Your speeches are all about Narendra ModiTry taking names of Bommai and Yediyurappa too one or two times they will feel happy he saidStating that this election was about Karnatakas people youth and mothers and sisters Gandhi said This election is not about one person not about Narendra Modi Prime Minister has to understand thisAICC General Secretary K C Venugopal and state Congress leaders were present at the public meetingGandhi during his speech highlighted Congresss poll guarantees iquest 200 units of free power to all households Gruha Jyoti Rs 2000 monthly assistance to the woman head of every family Gruha Lakshmi 10 kg of rice free to every member of a BPL household Anna Bhagya Rs 3000 every month for graduate youth and Rs 1500 for diploma holders both in the age group of 1825 for two years YuvaNidhi and free travel for women in public transport buses SakhiAccusing the BJP of rampant corruption in Karnataka in the past three years and taking 40 per cent commission in all kinds of work done by the government Gandhi said that instead of doing work of public good they looted from the pockets of the common man and poorIt is not that the Prime Minister is not aware of this corruption and 40 per cent commission He is aware of everythingso my question to PM is despite knowing about this loot for the last three years did you take any action You did not Why You should answer this to the people of Karnataka he saidHe also urged the Prime Minister to answer what he did to get Karnataka its right share of tax money how he helped the state during floods and how he tried to resolve the interstate water dispute between Karnataka Goa and MaharashtraUrging the people to ensure that the BJP which is involved in 40 per cent corruption would get only 40 seats Gandhi appealed to them to give Congress at least 150 seats so that they BJP dont buy MLAs and bring down the democraticallyelected governmentThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever